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Income protection provider British Friendly has launched a new online application process for financial advisers.

British consumers are increasingly convinced the NHS will see deterioration in quality of service and increasingly consider low-cost insurance products to cover any shortfall.

Savings as a result of today's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) final report into the private healthcare market are likely to be absorbed by employers, rather than benefit employees through wider cover, Capita Employee Benefits' analysis shows....

Private medical insurers (PMIs) are promising to pass on any savings made from the Competition and Market Authority's (CMA) final remedies for the private healthcare market to customers.

LV= is launching a new YouTube campaign ‘Near Misses' highlighting the provider's Sick Pay Insurance.

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is reducing some of its demands on private healthcare providers and practitioners to address lack of competition and consumer detriment issues in the market.

Ageas Protect paid out 89.3% of critical illness (CI) and children's CI protection claims in 2013 - the first time the protection provider has published its claims performance since it entered the market in 2008.

Unemployed people looking for work were almost twice as likely as those in employment to have a limiting long-standing illness or disability, the latest figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) has revealed.

Chancellor George Osborne has written to the chairman of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) criticising the regulator for its "damaging" behaviour in releasing details of its investigation into insurance policies before a formal announcement.

Leaders of UK businesses including Bupa, BT, RBS and Mars are collaborating to launch a new campaign that aims to end the "stifling" culture of silence on mental health in the workplace.